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...theme that is not so much hackneyed as perennial, Artist-Author Lindsay has tacked a tale that should tickle many readers. His profuse and enthusiastically unconventional drawings of wilder & wilder life on his desert island share the satirical realism of his sharply moraled tale. What would really happen to three men and a girl cast up together in an Eden enforced? There have been plenty of guesses; Author Lindsay's is as good as any, more entertaining than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Desert Isle, Inc. | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Third Noguchi | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...Confederate side. As a youthful revenge on his family for not letting him go to War he married the daughter of a no-account neighbor, emigrated to Indiana to his Uncle Lafe's farm. There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman. Crops & children came, but Tyler wanted wilder oats. At the news of Lee's surrender Tyler was furious, thought he had missed his big chance, meditated going West. Instead he began to call at easy Minnie Scott's when her husband was away. Tyler's wife tried hard to be his better half, but it was rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proust | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...George one of the Channel Islands, Jethou, stocked it with 10,000 books, 10,000 phonograph records. Here he spends what time he can spare from his villa at Capri, exercises some feudal privileges thrown in with his lease, such as flying his own flag. Lately he acquired a wilder, remoter island off the coast of Scotland. Jethou is now for rent. Besides his playwriting and book-writing activities Author Mackenzie edits The Gramophone and Vox, a weekly dedicated to candid criticism of London radio programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hereditary Environment | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...also planned to place chairs and tables outside for the convenience of tired dancers. The Mesdames C. N. Greenough, Roger Lee, M. W. Stackpole, and J. B. Ayer will receive. V. E. Biscque '34, J. S. Plant '33, and Phelps Wilder '34 have been added to the original list of ushers, which follows: Karl Adams, Jr. '33, J. M. Bradley '35, W. I. Clark '33, J. W. Crickard '32, N. P. Dodge '33, J. B. Hawes '32, J. L. Madden '31, E. A. Mays '32, E. F. Noyes '32, H. B. Powers '33, E. E. Record '32, Samuel Spencer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUNSTER HOUSE HOLDS ANNUAL SPRING DANCE | 5/27/1932 | See Source »

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